A level three out of five weather threat has been announced along parts of the northern Gulf Coast impacting Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, reported CNN on Saturday. 

Authorities have reported two deaths in Louisiana after severe overnight weather. 65 million people will be impacted by severe weather along the northern Gulf Coast.

St. Landry Parish emergency officials reported in a statement that seven accounts of injuries and one death after a possible tornado jostled the area on Saturday. 

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Parish president, Jessie Bellard said in a statement that a Shreveport man, 48, was killed on Friday night after a tree fell on his mobile home. 

Bellard said that deputies “found a large tree on top of the mobile home where two people had been inside.” There were two people in the house and a neighbour helped pull the uninjured women out of the house after which they call 911. The house was damaged inside out, as per the statement released. Strong winds were reported at the time of the accident. 

The statement released by St. Landry Parish said a possible tornado may hit on Saturday at 2.15 am near a state wildlife management area on Bolden Road. 

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Bellard said, “The National Weather Service out of Lake Charles will make a site assessment today and analyze radar damage to determine the size of the possible tornado.”

While flash floods could be a possibility along the Golf Coast, forecasters are saying that damaging wind poses a more prominent threat. Isolated tornadoes with large hail are possible, reported CNN.   

Flash flooding is also possible along the Gulf Coast with storms moving through Saturday. A level one out of five wider threat stretches into the Ohio River Valley and to the mid-Atlantic in the east. Gusty winds along with strong thunderstorms could be possible. 

The severe threat is expected to reduce by Saturday night. The storms may dissipate when showers move towards central Florida and near the East Coast in the Carolinas and Georgia.